Good morning, God--
I guess this morning I don't have much to ask or to talk about. I just want to use this entry as an opportunity to center myself a bit, to get a strong sense of focus before I head to school so that I can do the best that I can while I'm there and hopefully help the students with whom I work. I know that I'm an important part of their lives no matter what, even if they don't necessarily see me that way, and it's important that I take that role seriously if I'm to have any positive effects at all.
There are so many frustrations, though. I work with kids who don't believe in themselves or their futures, kids who have no desire to learn because they don't see any reason to do so. It gets hard to be in the classroom because we cover the information that we're supposed to cover, but they honestly make little effort to learn the material--they just want to pass over it and move on to the next thing, whether they actually know the last thing or not.
But my frustrations are my frustrations, and I should not take them out on the students. That's simply not fair. So I keep doing what I'm doing, and I do my best to help them to learn material that they really do need to know. And they will do what they do, and hopefully, eventually they'll see that there is some importance to what we do, some importance to knowing the material that we're covering. Because if they never realize this, how is the time they spend in the classroom with me ever going to help them at all?
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